Groucho's Fact Hunt

[Groucho]

Drivel

I didn't write the article.

 

[Rob17896]

I didn't write the article.

Nott implying you did old chap

 

[summerisle]

 

[silent bob]

Is there any evidence of pineapple on the pizzas?

 

[summerisle]

 

[Whistlin' Dixie]

The Slinky.

Discovered by accident in 1943, by mechanical engineer Richard Wilson.

I don't belieeeeeeeeeve it.

 

[JimmyJeffers]

I don't belieeeeeeeeeve it.

An ex girlfriend of mine met Richard Wilson once when she went on a uni trip to watch him in a play. The whole class were briefed before hand that they weren't allowed to say his catchphrase to him.

 

[summerisle]

An ex girlfriend of mine met Richard Wilson once when she went on a uni trip to watch him in a play. The whole class were briefed before hand that they weren't allowed to say his catchphrase to him.

And ? Surely ?

 

[Whistlin' Dixie]

An ex girlfriend of mine met Richard Wilson once when she went on a uni trip to watch him in a play. The whole class were briefed before hand that they weren't allowed to say his catchphrase to him.

I know mate - I remember what happened to Fr. Ted Crilly when he did it

 

[JimmyJeffers]

And ? Surely ?

I don't think so. The temptation would be unreal though

 

[summerisle]

Ingrid Pitt spent three in the Nazi concentration camp of Stutthof. Just before liberation by the Russians she was forced into a gas chamber. She was in there for hours until let out due to a mechanical malfunction. She was led into nearby woods by the SS to be shot but thanks to passing allied planes firing on the guards she managed to escape and spent the rest of the up to liberation with partisans. She was 5 years old when first entering Stutthof with her mother.

Later, when first starting her acting career in East Berlin, she was tipped off that she was to be arrested by the Stasi due to her outspoken anti communist views and fled to W.Germany by swimming the river Spree.

 

[Whistlin' Dixie]

Ingrid Pitt spent three in the Nazi concentration camp of Stutthof. Just before liberation by the Russians she was forced into a gas chamber. She was in there for hours until let out due to a mechanical malfunction. She was led into nearby woods by the SS to be shot but thanks to passing allied planes firing on the guards she managed to escape and spent the rest of the up to liberation with partisans. She was 5 years old when first entering Stutthof with her mother.

Later, when first starting her acting career in East Berlin, she was tipped off that she was to be arrested by the Stasi due to her outspoken anti communist views and fled to W.Germany by swimming the river Spree.

And she got her baps (Or barm cakes, depending on where you're from) out in hammer house of horror films, too.

 

[summerisle]

And she got her baps (Or barm cakes, depending on where you're from) out in hammer house of horror films, too.

More insight into her life.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007563l

 

[Jamo Martinez]

Hate to be pedantic (and I know it wasn't your wording) but women's suffrage became a national movement in 1872 and all women over the age of 21 were given the vote in 1928. Making 1921 quite late on in the suffragette movement.

Still a good fact in itself. Removing the word 'early' would see off picky bastids like me. And that's a fact.

 

[summerisle]

Hate to be pedantic (and I know it wasn't your wording) but women's suffrage became a national movement in 1872 and all women over the age of 21 were given the vote in 1928. Making 1921 quite late on in the suffragette movement.

Still a good fact in itself. Removing the word 'early' would see off picky bastids like me. And that's a fact.

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